An attempt by former Mayor Bill de Blasio to reform the specialized admissions process for New York City's high schools was met with well-funded and well-organized resistance and was ultimately abandoned.
Stuyvesant High School is among the city's specialized schools that continued to see low enrollment for Black and Latino students.Stuyvesant High School is among the city's specialized schools that continued to see low enrollment for Black and Latino students.A small fraction of offers to New York City’s selective specialized high schools were given to Black and Latino students again underlining persistent racial disparities in the country’s biggest school system.
Black students — a larger share of whom sought admission to the schools for the upcoming year than the previous fall — comprised more than 20 percent of Specialized High School Admissions Test takers while receiving roughly three percent of offers, according to data released by the city Department of Education Wednesday.
Latino students also received disproportionately fewer offers than white or Asian students, making up more than 25 percent of SHSAT participants and just over five percent of offers. The stark differences are in keeping with the New York City public schools’ legacy as among the most segregated in the country. Intense emotion and debate has swirled around the city’s eight specialized high schools for years, which are largely made up of white and Asian student populations.
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